Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics, and Astronomy (Classic Reprint) - Rilegato

Ferguson, James

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0265234549 ISBN 13: 9780265234549

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2019

Riassunto

Excerpt from Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics, and Astronomy

The immortal Sm isaac Nsw'rou insisted, even in his early years, that it was high time to banish vague conjectures and hypotheses from natural phi losophy, and to bring that science under an entire subjection to experiments and geometry. He frequently called it the experimental philosophy, so as to express significantly the difference between it and the numberless systems which had aris'u merely out of the conceits of inventive brains the one subsisting no longer than the spirit of noveltv lasts; the other never failing whilst the nature of things remains unchanged.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0265234549
• ISBN 13: 9780265234549
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 528
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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